While looking for ways to package HipHop for Debian, I came across Mike DuPont's git repository (https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/hiphop-php/) that he had started in January '10, but abandoned because of an apparent lack of interest from the HipHop developers.
I picked up where he left off but hit a wall when I tried to get the Debian or upstream developers for curl and libevent to accept the HipHop packages (see http://bugs.debian.org/638359 and http://bugs.debian.org/638360).
At that point, I contacted Mike and asked for his help. He suggested we attempt to get HipHop compiled *without* the patches since the upstream developers weren't too enthusiastic about them.
He managed to get a working compiler and I'd like to get additional testing done on it before I submit the work to Debian. Following is a copy of the email he tried to send to wikitech-l earlier today.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM Subject: Progress made on packaging hiphop for debian To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
I have been working on packaging hiphop php for debian without any patched libevent and curl, now have a basic package that can install the compiler. working on getting the runtime sorted out, any help would be appreciated.
note, this is working with the branch "official" not "master" I will have to clean that up.
git checkout official
dpkg-buildpackage should produce a deb that builds and a compiler that produces code, the runtime as I said needs work.
mike